The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-26
The News Of the Week.

Michigan farmers are busy fighting
forest fires.
Canon Falls, Mimi, was recently de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Queen Victoria was sixty-eight
years old May 23d.
A railroad conductor at Parsons,
Penn, on Saturday, lost his life in saw
ing woman and boy.
The new legal Saturday half holiday
was observed in New York city on
Saturday last.
Protracted drought is reported in
Minnesota and Dakota, and the grain
is suffering because of it.
President Cleveland has accepted
an Invitation to visit St. Louis in Sep
tember next.
Five men were executed in st. Peters
burg, on Friday last, for the recent at
tempt on the Cars life.
The revocation Of the orders with
drawing railroad indemnity lands from
sale will open 25,000, 900 acres to settle
ment.
Mr.. Abell of the Baltimore .SWa, is
set down as the richest newspaper man
in the world. He is credited with
S20,0O0,O00.
Chattanooga has subscribed $l50,0GO
towards establishing q large mower
and reaper factory, to cost $4,000
which is to be removed from the
North.
A fire at St Stephens Home, in
New York, on Saturday morning was
eXtinguished in time to save the lives
of the sisters and children.
Heavy gales, accompanied by snow
and hail and thunder and lightning,
continue with undated violence in
England.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Third National Bank
Of Knoxville, Tenn, to begin business
with a capital of $3.50, 900.
Two newspaper reporters of Phila-
delphia We're killed on Saturday. In
their eagerness to catch one train they
were run over by another.
The United States Express Com
pany's stables at Jersey City were
burned May % On the second floor
800 horses were kept, and all but 80 or
35 were saved. Loss $1,000.
Three of the Pan Handle Railroad
robbers have been convicted at Pitts
burg. They were sentenced to three
years, two years and half and one
year and eight months respectively at
hard labor in the penitentiary.
The steamer Gaelic has arrived at
San Francisco, from China and japan.
Among her passengers are l 200 CHI
nese. Two cases of smallpox We're
found among them, and the vessel was
Quarantained.
The sale of the French crown Jewels
was concluded May %. The chief lot,
diamond head dress, was sold in six
teen lots for 650,000 francs. The pro-
ceeds from nine days sale amounted
to g,S6t ,QeeS2 francs, or about 81, $50, GOO.
Reuben NJ. West, a negro barber,
who recently died in Richmond, Va,
aged Sc years, was once one OF the
most prominent men of his race in
the State, chiefly owing to the remark
able fact that he had about S20, 1000
invested in the African slave trade.
The furnace at Shenandoah Iron
Works, on the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad, in Page county, Va, has
shut down, owing to failure to secure
coke by reason of the strike in Penn
sylvania. About one hundred and
fifty men are thrown out of employ
ment. The ore banks, employing some
three hundred hands, are still being
worked.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, has
returned home from visit to the
South. He says that the mineral
wealth Of Alabama cannot be OYER
estimated; that new fields of rich
deposits of iron ores are being con-
stantly brought to light and the'fIture
of Northern Alabama and the iron
belt, which extends into Tennessee
and the Virginias, gives promise of
remarkable industrial development.
Capital is isfinding profitable investment
in these regions. The new South, be
says, is no myth but an assurance of
industrial progress which will be felt
throughout the entire country.
A special from Hillsboro, Texas,
says: Late Monday night E. L. Mich
olson, druggist, was putting up wall
paper in racks and his brother was
throwing it Up to him. One bundle
he failed to catch, andd it fell hack on
a lamp, breaking it, and in an instant
everything was in blaze. The lamp
was not more than ten feet from sew
eral barrels of whiskey, brandy. tur-
pentine and kerosene oil. E. L. Mich
olson barely escaped with his life. The
fire spread with great rapidity, and
the whole block except one storehouse
was speedily consumed. Loss $780, 900.
Insurance S6H, 900.
Acting Secretary Thompson has
appointed a committee to make all
| examination of the books and assets
of the office of United States Treasurer:
incident 10 the transfer Of that office
from Ir. Jordan to Mr.. Hyatt: The
examination will Involve an ACTUAL
count CT all the money in the Treas
ury, including SlST,00G000 in paper
money in the reserve vault, 500, 5,0O0, DOC
in the cash vault, 60,000,000 standard
silver dollars, S25, 100000 in gold coin
and a similar quantity of fractional
silver. The committee, in making the
| count, will have the assistance of sew.
enty-fve experts, The count began
on Monday last and can hardly be
completed inside two months. Treas